Kyle Lowry

When it ended Friday night, Victor Oladipo started to walk toward the Orlando Magic locker room. He trudged only a few feet before he sat down on Amway Center's parquet court, his mouthpiece jutting out of his mouth as he shook his head. The Magic had lost to the Toronto Raptors 101-99 after a frenetic final two minutes. It stung. "It's really tough," Oladipo said after he returned to the Magic's locker room. "There's a lot of things I want to take back from that game, a lot of things that I feel like I could've done better. But it's a learning process, man, and it's tough." It was tough, in part, because the final minutes felt like...

For the last four years, the Eastern Conference basketball universe orbited around LeBron James and his Miami Heat team that reached the NBA Finals all four seasons.This season, the East still revolves around James, because he has a chance to direct the...

TORONTO (AP) — The Raptors gave All-Star guard Kyle Lowry the day off against the NBA's worst team, and wound up winning easily.
That's not how it happened the last time Toronto faced the New York Knicks.
DeMar DeRozan scored 23 points, Tyler...

The NBA's best and brightest will gather at the Mecca of basketball this weekend. The All-Star Game and associated activities at the Barclays Center and Madison Square Garden create opportunities for NBA fans to take stock of the league.
Sorry, Celtics...

TORONTO — Kyle Lowry scored 10 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter, James Johnson had 15 points and 10 rebounds and the Toronto Raptors won their fourth straight meeting with the Boston Celtics 109-96 Saturday night, snapping a season-high four-game...

TORONTO -- The Toronto Raptors are about to be tested by the schedule.With an easy 118-108 decision over the New York Knicks on Sunday, a game in which they never trailed, the Raptors won their sixth game in a row, equaling their best streak of the...

NEW YORK -- Forward Patrick Patterson and point guard Kyle Lowry hit clutch shots in the early stages of overtime and the Toronto Raptors pulled out a 95-90 victory over the New York Knicks Sunday night at Madison Square...

It was quick and painless, pretty much the opposite of the Lakers' season.
They were up two at halftime and down a lot more than that by the time the fourth quarter ended with a 94-83 victory for the Toronto Raptors on Friday night at Air Canada Centre....

The arena had barely started to fill up in Minnesota, but Julius Randle provided a status update with one little basketball movement.
He grabbed a rebound from his missed shot, planted with his back to the basket and jumped up for a reverse dunk.
It was...

TORONTO — Michael Jordan never experienced it. Neither did Scottie Pippen. Not even Phil Jackson accomplished the feat.
With their 116-103 victory over the Raptors Wednesday night at Air Canada Centre, the Bulls guaranteed their fifth straight winning...

The Lakers (18-50) finished Week 21 with a win over the Philadelphia 76ers (17-53).
The Lakers, who start a five-game road trip on Tuesday, face this week and Sunday the Oklahoma City Thunder (40-30), Minnesota Timberwolves (15-54), Toronto Raptors...

The summary
The Bulls throttled the Raptors 108-92 Friday night at the United Center, taking over third place in the Eastern Conference playoff race. They shot 53.2 percent, their highest since hitting 53.9 percent from the field in a Jan. 16 victory...

Advantage: Older brother.
The Gasol vs. Gasol story line ended in slight favor of Pau, who had 10 points and 12 rebounds while Marc had six points and 10 rebounds Sunday.
They were the first brothers to start an NBA All-Star game; Sunday's exhibition...

Russell Westbrook almost made history Sunday, scoring the second-most points in All-Star game history as the Western Conference held off the East, 163-158.
Westbrook had 41 points, one fewer than Wilt Chamberlain scored in 1962, and was an easy choice...

NEW YORK — Pau Gasol sat in a chair behind a table surrounded by people holding microphones, cameras and recorders. Questions were shouted to him in English and Spanish, demanding instantaneous eloquence.
In some regards, Friday could have been like many...

It finally happened, 20 months and 133 games into Doc Rivers' tenure with the Clippers.
His team lost a third consecutive game in the regular season.
It seemed unlikely when the Clippers held a 20-point lead over the Toronto Raptors in the...

On Thursday, Lakers guard Kobe Bryant and Clippers forward Blake Griffin were named as NBA All-Star starters, as voted in by fan balloting.
Bryant, who received preliminary results of an MRI exam that showed a torn rotator cuff, seems likely to miss...